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The request was made by the Coordination Network Colombia Europe United States (CCEEU), which promptly requested the intermediation of the ICC so that those responsible for these follow-ups, revealed by Semana magazine, are brought to justice.
The CCEEU made this call in a document in which it requested the international tribunal “its intervention to deepen the analysis, within the framework of its preliminary examination activities that it is carrying out in the country, to ensure that those who are most responsible for these criminal plans for attacks against people who defend human rights are identified, processed and brought to justice. ”
The platform, which groups 281 social organizations and NGOs defending human rights, recalls that the computer monitoring programs carried out on this occasion “They do not constitute isolated events, but are part of repeated practices that have been developing continuously at least since 2002.”
The CCEEU also asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to take letters in the face of the “serious situation” for the case of espionage in Colombia.
The platform justifies the request because espionage “affects the rights to privacy, integrity, life and activities in defense of human rights as well as the conditions for the full validity of democracy and for the achievement and maintenance of peace. ”
In that sense calls for an interdisciplinary group of experts to be established that it can “account for the persistence, affectation and responsibilities of the state and of the authorities involved in the implementation of criminal activities carried out by the military intelligence agencies that have affected the country from 2002 to the present.”
On the other hand, The Commission asked the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and the other governments to “review” their policies of military cooperation with Colombia.
This with “the objective of establish firm guarantees that the transferred resources, tools and capabilities of military intelligence are no longer used for persecution, espionage or profiling of people who defend human rights ”.
They point out that it is necessary to ensure that these resources and capacities are “limited to what is strictly necessary for the fulfillment of precise purposes such as the investigation of serious crimes defined in national legislation.”
At the same time that it makes requests to international entities, the platform also asks the Colombian government and control agencies to take the necessary actions to bring to justice those responsible for espionage.
The Office of the Attorney General, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Supreme Court of Justice requests them to carry out “investigations that allow the individualization, prosecution and effective punishment of all the material perpetrators of these crimes.”
In the same way, it asks the Colombian Government “to take without delay the required measures” to dismantle the activities and structures that the military intelligence “have been carrying out in the last 2 decades criminal activities and plans of persecution and attacks on the people who defend the human rights and social leaders ”.
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